🚨 ADORABLE CAR ALERT 🚨

[jalefkowit@vmst.io]

ADORABLE CAR ALERT

1913 Pope-Hartford Model 31 Four-Passenger Phaeton. True mileage unknown. Current bid: US$35,500.

"Additional features include oil-fed cowl lamps, a brass radiator shell, a tilt-down windshield carrying dual side mirrors, running boards, and a luggage rack carrying a wicker basket."

https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1913-pope-hartford-model-31-touring-5-passenger-phaeton/

#AdorableCarAlert #cars

[hannah@posts.rat.pictures]

@jalefkowit on my awooga shit

[jalefkowit@vmst.io]

In case you thought they were kidding about the wicker basket.

That's why the rear storage area in a car is called a trunk. Because in the olden days, storage wasn't built into the car; they just strapped an actual trunk on there

[jalefkowit@vmst.io]

@hannah Awoogamaxxing

[sir_osis_of_liver@beige.party]

@jalefkowit

It's one thing to keep a 1950 Hudson Hornet or Packard Super Eight on the road, but a 1913 Pope-Hartford?

Hats off to the people who looked after it.

[welshpixie@mastodon.art]

@jalefkowit unlike in the UK, where cars had tall shoes strapped to the back

[chris_e_simpson@hachyderm.io]

@jalefkowit looking forward to the old car with the thug sitting on the front

[jalefkowit@vmst.io]

Love the happy dog running alongside

https://youtu.be/M0qEuBILyr4

[paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange]

@jalefkowit

i like descriptive names like that. same era, the rumble seat. you can guess why.

[jalefkowit@vmst.io]

@Pamela1960 "In the case of the English 'boot', the origin is that in the 18th and 19th centuries, the coachman used to sit on a locker where he could store, among other things, his boots. For this reason, this was termed the 'boot locker' and after a while an additional compartment situated at the rear of the coach was used, also called for the same reason the 'boot' (for short)."

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/15934/stick-it-in-the-boot-er-dont-you-mean-the-trunk